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Showing posts with label The Process. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Process. Show all posts

Thursday, December 23, 2010

More On Plotting


I took a shot of this the day of finals, and just now got around to pulling it off my phone.  Here, we have: a short outline, a long outline, notebook, hair clip, lip balm, colored index cards, pencils, highlighters, black ink pen (very important), white index cards, and Blake Snyder's SAVE THE CAT.

Then, when I have a good idea of where I'm going, it all gets input into Scrivener, like this:


I typically try to write from beginning to end, but there are some scenes I know out of order, so I don't feel bad spending a few minutes getting those down as they come to me.


Full-screen mode is great for times when Twitter gets in the way of productivity:


I'm also partial to my timer-bomb, which keeps me from feeling overwhelmed:


But the real secret to writing well is having tons of these:


HOTCH SNUGGLES!!!!

Happy Holidays, everyone!